Screenshot API
by Caio Ricciuti
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 100 renders / month · 1 snapshot set, daily checks · All formats and options · 1 request / second | Free |
| Starter | $9 / mo · 2,000 renders / month · 5 snapshot sets · Hourly schedules · 5 requests / second | $9 a month |
| Pro | $29 / mo · 10,000 renders / month · 20 snapshot sets · Slack delivery · 10 requests / second | $29 a month |
| Team | $49 / mo · 25,000 renders / month · 50 snapshot sets · Deploy checks for every project · 25 requests / second | $49 a month |
| Business | $149 / mo · 100,000 renders / month · 200 snapshot sets · Priority rendering · 50 requests / second | $149 a month |
As screenshot-api.net lists them, read 29 Sept 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from Caio Ricciuti's own pages
- AI clients
- A hosted MCP server connects Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT using one URL and sign-in. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Browser rendering
- Pages are rendered by a real browser engine that supports JavaScript, web fonts, CSS grid, and lazy images. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Capture controls
- The API supports full-page capture, custom viewports up to 3840×4320, scale up to 3×, and dark mode. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Compliance
- GDPR · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Credential scope
- Cookies, headers, and basic-auth credentials are scoped to the target host; headers are not sent to other origins or followed across a redirect to another host. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Deployment
- cloud, browser extension · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Free tier
- The free plan includes 100 renders per month without a credit card or trial clock, and quotas reset at the start of each UTC calendar month without rollover. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Headquarters
- Spain · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Image options
- Requests can select PNG, JPEG, or WebP and adjust quality for JPEG and WebP. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- The service can send comparison results to Slack and lists Forgejo/GitHub Actions, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, and Vercel for deploy hooks. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Key features
- Capture pages as PNG, JPEG, or WebP · Capture full scrollable pages · Set custom viewport width and height · Set device scale for retina output · Set a delay before capture · Render with dark-mode preference · Compare a page with another URL or stored baseline and return a visual diff · Create scheduled snapshot sets and send summaries to Slack · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Notable restriction
- Targets on private networks cannot be captured and must be reachable from the public internet. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Purpose
- The hosted API captures web pages and returns PNG, JPEG, or WebP images in one request. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Quota handling
- A failed render is not counted against the quota and failures on the service side are automatically refunded. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Security
- Requests to private networks, loopback addresses, and cloud metadata are refused, with the renderer also blocked from that traffic at the network layer. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Support
- email, docs · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Support contact
- The site lists [email protected] as its contact address. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Use cases
- The maker lists social cards, visual change monitoring, thumbnails, reports and archiving, design and QA review, and current product documentation as use cases. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
- Visual comparison
- The compare endpoint can compare a page with another URL or a stored baseline and return changed regions and a diff image. · screenshot-api.net, 29 Sept 2026
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